Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a "Culture of Fear"

Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a "Culture of Fear"

There is a moment of palpable tension at the center of Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s interview with Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things. Garcia-Navarro asks Roy a series of questions about her persecution in India, including threats of arrest and the banning of her book, Azadi, in Kashmir. Roy grows circumspect; the interview seems, briefly, to teeter. Then the tension breaks, and Roy expands on the value of communi…